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The following are the results of the prosecutions:—
1 fine of 16/- and 4/- costs.
1 fine of 6/- and 4/- costs.
3 fines of 2/6 and 4/- costs.
34 fines of 1/- a.nd 4/- costs.
1 fine of 1/- and 1/6 costs.
1 attendance order with 4/- costs.
1 attendance order, costs remitted.
2 boys committed to North London Truant School owing
to verminous condition and neglect.
8 cases adjourned and withdrawn.
EYE CLINIC.
An Eye Clinic for the examination and treatment of children
suffering from defective vision was opened at the Town Hall on
April 2nd, and has since been maintained on two mornings in each
week of the school terms.
The Council has erected a corrugated iron building in the yard
adjoining the Public Health Offices, which is used for the
Ophthalmic and Dental Clinics. The building measures 27 feet
3 inches by 12 feet and cost £175 0s. 8d.
lit contains a dark room for the use of the Oculist and all the
apparatus needed for the testing and treatment of children suffering
from Ophthalmic and Deintal defects. The waiting room in
the Health Department serves for all the clinics, and gives access
a,t the south end to the new corrugated iron building.
Children discovered in the schools to be suffering from defective
vision come up to the clinic by appointment, and are all
carefully examined under a cycloplegic by the Oculist, who prescribes
glasses where necessary.
The Council have entered into a contract with Mr. Seed, of
High Road, Leyton, to supply spectacles to prescription, and the
cost to the Council v;tries with the complexity of the glasses;